Omg that's awful, literally just gone and tied mine up, the ones in the bedroom are high up anyway but the living room ones aren't, I sometimes cook in the kitchen with the door open and babygate on I can see J from there but that story says it's can happen in less than twenty seconds, thanks Hun you have reminded me to do something I should have already done x

That is very sad and really makes you realise how quickly things can happen just around the home.

We have blinds with these cords and I have always had them tied up. I remember reading a story some time ago about a little girl who was waving goodbye to her Daddy from the window and she slipped and the cord from the blind wrapped around her neck and strangled her within seconds.

I think sometimes people don't take hazards around the home seriously enough but of course at the same time we can't wrap our lo's in cotton wool and turn them into scared and anxious children. It is hard to find the right balance sometimes!

Swizzle that story has just made me shiver from head to toe, god it doesn't bare thinking about, I don't think j would have reached ours anyway (there is furniture in the way) but now they are super high x

I know Looby, you can't even begin to imagine what the parents are going through. I am sure I remember reading more recently about a young girl who was dancing around her bedroom and her dressing gown cord got wrapped around her neck and she strangled herself. She was about 7 so obviously older than our lo's but god how awful!! I really get a bit overly cautious about things like belts and I am nervous about scarves!! (I maybe a bit overly worried sometimes!)

DOes anybody know what sort of blinds they are talking about? Is it the cord-pull roman blinds, or the roller blinds with the with the plastic 'chain' loop? Or are they all as bad as each other? We've got both types in our house

I guess it's better to be over careful than not, I would never forgive myself for something like this I guess no parent would, MIms I guess it could be any blind cords? J has just started reaching drawers and pulling my iPhone head phones out too it frightens me so have started keeping them somewhere else now too x